Water Investigations

To finish our Term 2 Integrated Studies topic 'Water' we completed some water investigations, to celebrate what we had learnt during the term. The students had a lot of fun and were able to express their new knowledge of water saving creatively, through various ways.

The students were given many choices of how to present their knowledge including, dioramas, posters, plays, commercials, songs, poems, word searches, written activities or power-point presentations on the computer.

The finish products all looked fantastic and demonstrated that the students now have a deeper understanding of why we need to save water and how we can save water. It was wonderful to see how proud the students were of their creations and to hear them verbalising their thoughts, ideas and knowledge behind their creations.

Wash your vegetables in a bowl of water, rather than the running tap and water your garden in the morning or night- not in the middle of the day.

Use a water tank or buckets to collect rain water to water your garden.

Use water tanks to collect rain water. Use this

water to wash your car.

A bright and colourful poster, asking people to reuse water

from the washing machine to water their garden.

These girls acted out a fantastic play. Their message was to show people to use buckets to wash the car instead of using the hose.

Walkathon

What a tiring and very enjoyable day!
The grade 2 students made an excellent effort to complete 3 or even 4 laps at the Rowville Walkathon. The students were very determined to walk for as long as they could and get as many marks on their hands as possible! Thanks to the parents who came along and marshaled for the morning and to the parents who joined in and completed the laps as well. We couldn't have done it without you! The students had a great morning, improved their fitness and motivated them to improve their fitness further :)

This came at a great time as it links in with our "Happy, Healthy, Me" topic for next term. We will be learning about how important exercise if for us, as well as a healthy diet, rest and recreation.

On the final lap.

Hands On Maths Activity: Pictures out of icy-pole sticks

We love to do maths that involves 'hands on' components. This particular activity allowed us to use our imagination and creativity to create a picture of our choice, out of icy pole sticks. We then estimated how many sticks we thought we used to make our picture. After we counted our icy-pole sticks we worked out the difference by taking-away the smallest number from the biggest number. We used a calculator to check our answers. Once we knew our actual amount, we grouped them into groups of 10. We could then record the multiplication equation and repeated addition for our sticks.

What a lot of maths out of a bunch of icy-pole sticks!

Creating our pictures.

Using a calculator to find out 'the difference'

and grouping our sticks in 10's to help us

with multiplication and repeated addition.

Grade 2 Singing

Every Friday morning all the Grade 2's get together for a sing-a-long. They have a great time and get to catch up with their friends from the other grades. They have learnt many songs such as Splish Splash, Shake Your Tail Feather, Mama Mia, Superman and The Underwear Song!

Their singing has really improved! They have learnt lots of new words and meanings of words, developed new friendships, improved their rhythm and you should look at their dance moves!

Piano Performance At Assembly

We were lucky to watch and listen to many piano performances at assembly. It was extra exciting to have two students perform from our grade! Congratulations to the performers, what a magnificent job you did in front of the whole school. We look forward to your next performance!